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  • Establishing Arab union to protect youth, develop their abilities, deal with their problems mulled

    Date: 2014-05-04 06:16:27 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:701758

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, May 4 (MENA) - Minister of Youth and Sports Khaled Abdel-Aziz conferred with Prince Nawaf bin Faisal, president of the General Presidency of Youth Welfare (GPYW), on the possibility to establish an Arab union funded by the ....

  • Targeting army, police personnel is great sin: Libya's mufti

    Date: 2014-05-03 21:55:32 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:116 - ID:701684

    TRIPOLI, May 3 (MENA) – Targeting army and police personnel was a great sin, Libya's Mufti Sadek al-Gheriani said on Saturday. "It is not permissible for any one to shed blood of any Muslim," the mufti told Libyan TV. "It is not allowed to ....

  • AOHR deplores Benghazi terrorist ops

    Date: 2014-05-03 21:53:52 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:115 - ID:701678

    TRIPOLI, May 3 (MENA) - The Arab Organization for Human Rights has expressed deep concern over terrorist operations targeting Libyan special forces. In a press release on Saturday, the AOHR condemned the recent deadly incidents that left a number ....

  • Jordanian FM meets Iraqi, Lebanese, UN officials

    Date: 2014-05-03 20:29:19 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:106 - ID:701611

    AMMAN, May 3 (MENA) - Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs Nasser Judeh held Saturday three meetings with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs Rashid Derbas and UN High Commissioner for ....

  • Security disperses Algiers protest

    Date: 2014-05-03 20:26:24 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:105 - ID:701594

    ALGIERS, May 3 (MENA) - Security forces dispersed Saturday a protest organized by a group of activists and rights movements in Algiers. The forces arrested some of the participants. In a statement, an Algerian front denounced the forces' ....

  • Hamas going ahead to liberate Palestine: Haneyeh

    Date: 2014-05-03 20:23:58 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:104 - ID:701512

    GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) – Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneyeh has said that the Islamist movement is "going ahead to liberate Palestine and to return to Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa Holy Mosque." During his tour of houses of a number of the leaders who ....

  • 3 Shiite visitors killed in Iraq's Salahuddin

    Date: 2014-05-03 17:41:01 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:76 - ID:701404

    BAGHDAD, May 3 (MENA) – Three visitors of Imam Ali Al Hadi were killed and five others injured in an armed attack during their return from Samaraa, Salahuddin province, 170 km north of Baghdad, an Iraqi security source said on Saturday. An armed ....

  • US Amb. in Beirut leaves for Riyadh to meet Hariri

    Date: 2014-05-03 17:13:39 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:71 - ID:701376

    BEIRUT, May 3 (MENA) - US Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale left Beirut Saturday to pay a visit to Saudi Arabia. In a statement, the American Embassy in Beirut said the ambassador would meet with former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Saudi ....

  • Peace efforts useless without Palestinian unity- Jordanian PM

    Date: 2014-05-03 16:34:15 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:701302

    AMMAN, May 3 (MENA) – All Arab peace efforts and negotiations are baseless unless supported by the national Palestinian unity, Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Saturday. Ensour considered such unity as the conscience of the Palestinian ....

  • Mers death toll in Saudi Arabia rises to 111

    Date: 2014-05-03 14:08:22 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:701077

    RIYADH, May 3 (MENA) – Saudi Health Ministry announced that as many as 111 people died in the Kingdom after suffering the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) since the disease appeared in the Arab country in September 2012. According to a ....

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